Climbing dioecious or monoecious herbs with simple leaves. Tendrils simple. Flowers small, white, becoming cream or yellowish-green with age. Male flowers solitary or in raceme- or umbel-like axillary clusters; corolla 5-lobed; stamens 2-3(-4), all 2-thecous; disk elevated and free from the receptacle-tube. Female flowers in similar inflorescences to the male; ovary smooth, glabrous to pubescent; staminodes often present, 3; disk annular. Fruit a berry, usually red and glabrous. Worldwide: 30 species in the tropics of the Old World Mozambique: 7 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| microsperma Hook. f. | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
| minutiflora (Cogn.) C. Jeffrey | MS | Description, Image |
| pallidinervia (Harms) C. Jeffrey | MS,M | |
| parvifolia (Cogn.) J.H. Ross | MS,M | |
| scabra (L.f.) Sond. subsp. argyrea (A. Zimm.) C. Jeffrey var. argyrea | N | |
| scabra (L.f.) Sond. subsp. scabra | N,MS | Description, Image |
| tridactyla (Hook. f.) R. & A. Fern. | N,Z,MS,M | Description, Image |